{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["about","blame","bully","depression","envy","happening","happiness","happy","haters","hatred","impress","impression","jealousy","loser","michael-bassey-johnson","non-achiever","note","nothing","pleasing-someone","show-off","someone","trying","unhappy","write-off"],"id":6480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["comfort","fake","false","illusion","impression","mask"],"id":23900,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?","author":"Arthur Golden","tags":["choice","clay","destiny","geisha","hopes","impression","memoirs","memoirs-of-a-geisha"],"id":26468,"author_id":"Arthur+Golden"},{"text":"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["art","distance","imagination","impression"],"id":27912,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.","author":"Pharrell Williams","tags":["day","every day","impression "],"id":28677,"author_id":"Pharrell+Williams"},{"text":"Beauty of office, is profession in place.","author":"Hicham Zinalabdin","tags":["design","elegant","image","impression","perfection"],"id":49382,"author_id":"Hicham+Zinalabdin"},{"text":"You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.","author":"Nike Thaddeus","tags":["first-dates","forgiveness","friendship","impression","understanding","understanding-others"],"id":53752,"author_id":"Nike+Thaddeus"},{"text":"Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","compress","depress","don-t-hate-yourself","food-for-thought","forgiveness","free","freedom","glad","happiness","happy","hatred","impress","impression","impressive","imprison","israelmore-ayivor","liberate","liberation","liberty","oppress","oppression","sad","self","self-hatred","self-imprisonment","self-liberation","suppress","suppression","unhappy","yourself"],"id":56345,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","anxiety","anxious","aphorism","aphorisms","attitude","axiom","axioms","challenge","challenges","complain","complaining","complaint","deem","deep","dictum","dictums","endurance","endure","epigram","epigrams","feeling","feelings","gnome","gnomes","hardship","humor","humour","hurt","impression","impressions","insightful","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","inspired","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","motivated","motivational","motive","overcome","overcoming","pain","perspective","perspectives","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","problem","problems","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","regard","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","self-inflict","self-inflicted","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stress","stressed","stressing","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tough-times","words-to-live-by","worried","worry","worrying"],"id":63466,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["action","actions","aphorism","aphorisms","bad","bad-people","bad-person","badness","character","characters","conceal","concealment","facade","facades","good","good-people","good-person","goodness","humor","humour","illusion","illusions","impress","impression","impressions","mask","masks","personalities","personality","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":69401,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}